She's going to be a beautiful Mimic custom! Those rusty "symbols" in the first pic look really interesting! It looks like she's trying her best to be Majesty with the symbols and all, even though the original glitter symbols are gone and have been replaced by rusty age spots

Thanks for pointing me to issue 11 of the UK comic, Artemesia, that brings back memories! I may dig out a pair of crystals anyway, just to display next to her, it could be a reference to the back-story in the comic where the Twinkle Eyed Ponies get their eyesight restored after being imprisoned in the dark mine!

Thanks, Elva!

NGSA, I thought about one day doing this to a Tootsie too, the body colour is very close, eh? Good luck with that! Will you be sculpting a unicorn-horn for her?

So, I remixed and remixed and remixed again, I *think* I have a better paint shade for her body, much paler and a tad cooler. It was a bit of a shock painting it on her, it contrasted a bit with the existing yellowness and I thought: - oops - but I now think it looks much better than before, just a few more coats to go, painting the parrot symbols, then an acrylic matt varnish to protect it, pop in her tail, tidy her mane and then the reveal

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OK, here is the new paint-job, looking less yellow and much paler: visitors can't see pics , please register or login